57. The real point, for me, is that he has a national presence

I don't think he's a hero - but I do think it is honorable to admit a mistake. I also think it's a big deal for this face of the establishment to talk about medical benefits, how he was wrong and, importantly, that OUR NATION'S bureaucracies IMPEDE scientific research on this issue.

As he noted, and as has been noted here many times - our govt. will not fund research to look at health benefits, so any research that is done is skewed, from the start, as propaganda.

But he's ADMITTING this reality.

Other research was available to him in 2009 when he came out against legalization before CA's vote on the issue before the election. Research has been available for decades, on some aspects of this issue.

I doubt if he read too much of it before he reflexively came down on the side of the DEA.